What the heck is a 16mm negative film for?

[ppppenguin]

Thanks for digging out those references.

I wonder who had a need for 35mm reversal movie film. If you had the budget to shoot movies on 35mm you would have wanted to do grading and more before going to a release print. Hence you would have shot negative and gone through a conventional workflow. Reversal 35mm film was routine for shooting colour slides. Kodachrome and Ektachome being the best known processes.

I can certainly understand the utility of shooting 16mm news film on reversal stock. The telecine operator would be doing grading "on the fly".